Angola's support has also been instrumental in helping Guinea-Bissau's national television station, Televisão da Guiné-Bissau (TVGB), resume its transmissions following a five-month closure. TVGB had been unable to repair its broken transmitters because of a lack of funds (January 2011, The political scene). A co-operation accord signed with the Angolan media ministry, however, paved the way to the rapid repair of the transmitters and the resumption, in December, of news service broadcasts. Maria Abiatu Djaló Nandinga-who in addition to her other briefs is Guinea-Bissau's minister of social communication-said that the next step in the Angolan-supported initiative would be the full resumption of all the station's programmes, together with the training of staff and development of new programmes.